Platform Engineer | DevOps | SRE | Cloud Automation
Microsoft Certified Azure DevOps Engineer Expert focused on building reliable, scalable, and secure engineering platforms that enable development teams to deliver software efficiently.
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Platform Engineer @ Enterprise Scale
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IaC · CI/CD · SRE · Automation
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Platform Engineer @ Enterprise Scale
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IaC · CI/CD · SRE · Automation
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a1b2c3d Modular Bicep for AKS
d4e5f6g OIDC federation pipeline
g7h8i9j SLO alerting framework
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About
I'm a Microsoft Certified Azure DevOps Engineer Expert with experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), cloud operations, and platform automation. My focus is on building reliable, scalable, and secure engineering platforms that enable development teams to deliver software efficiently while maintaining high availability and operational excellence.
I enjoy solving complex infrastructure and reliability challenges through automation, observability, and engineering best practices. My areas of expertise include Azure DevOps, GitHub Enterprise & GitHub Actions, CI/CD Pipeline Engineering, Infrastructure as Code, Platform Engineering, Monitoring & Observability, Cloud Automation, Release Engineering, Incident Response, and Operational Excellence.
Throughout my career, I have partnered with development, security, and business teams to improve deployment reliability, reduce manual operational effort, strengthen governance, and increase platform stability.
“Improving system reliability, automating operational workflows, reducing deployment risk, and strengthening DevOps and SRE practices.”
Capabilities
Design and operate Azure-first infrastructure with AWS exposure. Repeatable provisioning through Terraform, Bicep, and ARM templates — enabling teams to deploy compliant environments consistently.
Build and maintain enterprise CI/CD platforms across Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions. Self-hosted runners, approval gates, and release automation that reduce deployment time from hours to minutes.
Implement least-privilege access, branch protections, deployment controls, service account lifecycle management, and gMSA workflows. Audit-friendly documentation that satisfies compliance without slowing teams down.
Transform manual operational processes into repeatable, self-service automation using PowerShell, Bash, and Python. Pipeline templates, operational scripts, and runbooks that eliminate toil.
Incident response, root cause analysis, performance optimization, and monitoring handoffs across Windows and Linux. Keep critical business applications running with minimal downtime.
Lead repository migrations from legacy source control into modern Git-based workflows. Branching strategies, enablement documentation, and cross-functional team support that accelerate adoption.
Selected work
Production-style AKS platform with modular Bicep IaC and secretless CI/CD via GitHub Actions OIDC. Includes VNet isolation, ACR, Key Vault with RBAC, Log Analytics, and multi-environment parameters.
End-to-end SRE platform with Helm-based Kubernetes deployments, Prometheus + Grafana observability, SLO-based alerting, OpenTelemetry tracing, and full incident response documentation.
Production-grade PowerShell automation for server fleet management, certificate lifecycle, IIS administration, rolling deployments, CI/CD pipeline templates, KQL queries, and security compliance.
Open-source knowledge base with 9 troubleshooting runbooks, 10 cheat sheets, 5 production checklists, architecture diagrams, and reusable SRE documentation templates.
Experience
loanDepot
WellStack
WellStack
CloudRay
University of Central Missouri
Stack
Cloud
CI/CD
IaC
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Platforms
Tools
Credentials
Advanced DevOps practices, CI/CD strategy, infrastructure automation, and release governance.
Microsoft
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Testimonials
Cross-functional technical leadership, from people who have seen it up close.
PCPatricia Chin
Senior DevOps Engineer · loanDepot
“All of my interactions with Harshith have increased my respect and positive opinion of him. We usually work together on bigger projects together that require a change to production in some way - and…”
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